Re: guix installation on nixos

[Guy fleury]

2019-02-14 17:04 UTC+01:00, Roy Lemmon <address@hidden>:
> Guy fleury <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your help. I have done this but still having problems. I can
> now run guix as root and install correctly.
>
> However, if I setup for a normal user as in the manual:
>
> cd /usr/local/bin
> ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix

> I still cannot make it work for that normal user. I made sure
> /usr/local/bin is in PATH. But the guix command is simply not found.

 i have miss this.
 you can go to IRC Freenode #guix the guix developer will help you easily.

> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers
> Roy.
>
>> Le mer. 13 févr. 2019 à 19:17, Roy Lemmon <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I am having trouble installing guix on nixos. I have specified the build
>> users and the guix daemon isystemd service in my configuration.nix file
>> and all works.
>>
>>  I am then following the binary installation instructions. As root I then
>> try to test by running
>>
>>  guix package -i hello
>>
>>  However rather than install the small hello package, guix is installing a
>> large number of dependencies such as gcc etc. It is taking a long time. IS
>> this normal ?
>>
>>  I am also having trouble setting up the environme for running guix as
>> non-root user.
>>
>>  This is on a laptop.
>>
>> on debian i do this.
>>  sudo chown guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy
>> or
>> sudo chown -r guy: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/guy
>>
>> replace guy by your user name
>>
>>  Is this the right mailing list to ask for help ?
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Roy.
>>
>>  --
>>  ********************************
>>  Roy Lemmon
>>  STFC Daresbury Laboratory
>>  United Kingdom
>>  ********************************
>